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Word: reds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago when the top-ranking tennis players of the world assembled at Wimbledon for the 58th All-England championships, most international of all tournaments, the spotlight played on the distaff side. So completely has California's red-haired Donald Budge dominated men's tennis in the past year that no one mentioned the possibility of his defeat. But for women it promised to be the greatest championship in Wimbledon's history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Women's Wimbledon | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

...expected to sell for its exclusive coverage from 30 to 75 minutes of air time on its Red and Blue networks, had mustered 146 stations from Boston to Honolulu, had a beam open for Portuguese short waving to Brazil, another for Spanish reporting to other South and Central American listeners, a third to carry the German account to Challenger Schmeling's homeland. It was to be the biggest sport broadcast ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Profit & Loss | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

Should Women Pay Alimony (Sat. 9:30 p.m., NBC-Red) debated by N. Y. Assemblyman William T. Middleton, Oxford Debater Maurice C. Dreicer, Novelist Fannie Hurst for the affirmative; N. Y. Executive Assistant Secretary of State Doris I. Byrne, N. Y. State Senator Leon Fischel for the negative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Programs Reviewed: Jul. 4, 1938 | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

Nairobi Drumbeats (Sat. 10 p.m., NBC-Red) short-waved from Kenya Colony, Africa, begin a broadcast of jazz history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Programs Reviewed: Jul. 4, 1938 | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

...save Covent Garden from bankruptcy, her father drafted her to play Juliet. With only three weeks' rehearsal in the part, she became an overnight rage, paid off Covent Garden's ?11,000 debt in a year. When a cholera plague shortly afterwards put Covent Garden in the red again, Fanny's father took her to the U. S. on tour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rare Mixture | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

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